Ryan Ferguson is Innocent
Statement from Ryan Ferguson:
Waves of hopelessness come from nowhere crashing upon the front step of what could otherwise be seen as an alright day for prison. That little bit of peace one holds onto is so obliterated in a moment's time. A random thought, a smell, a name: that is all it takes to send your whole world spiraling back down into the abyss that is the oppression of incarceration. All that hard work to stay above water and for what? A temporary solace.
Sometimes it seems pointless when your life has been taken by people you were raised to trust. Condemned for forty years for a crime they know I did not commit.
Six years is coming up in a few short days. Soon I will be twenty-six and have yet to set free feet upon this earth in my twenties.
Is it possible to go another thirty years when I know even one day is too many, that the system doesn't care, that for most of us the hope of freedom that we so desire will never be realized?
All I can do is pray that hope doesn't abandon me because that is all I have left. It is the only thing opening my eyes each day.
Ryan Ferguson
3/6/2010
Statement from Attorney Kathleen Zellner:
Ryan is the twelfth person my law firm has represented who is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The other eleven men are now free as Ryan will be soon.
Last week, I visited the Boone County Courthouse. I could not help but notice an inscription on the wall as I entered the building:
"O'Justice, when expelled from other habitations make this thy dwelling place"
Justice did not dwell in the Boone County Courthouse during the Ryan Ferguson trial. As with many wrongful convictions, those who are most culpable for the perversions of justice hide in the shadows preferring to have their underlings speak for them. The saying is true that, "a good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat justice by evil means."
Ryan Ferguson will walk out of prison a free man. He will never be able to replace the 2,136 days taken from him. The real murderer of Kent Heitholt has spent every one of those days as a free man, enjoying a life he does not deserve.
Those who put Ryan in prison will find, "there is no flag large enough to cover the shame (of convicting) an innocent man."
Kathleen Zellner
3/8/2010
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